This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.

阿敏•马卢夫 Amin Maalouf 黎巴嫩裔法国著名小说家、散文家、历史学家，法兰西学院院士。1949年2月25日生于黎巴嫩贝鲁特，1976年移居法国。他曾周游世界六十余国，亲历了越南战争、伊朗革命等重大历史事件，被公认为阿拉伯及中东世界专家。 这样一位原籍黎巴嫩的阿拉伯作家，他本人又出生于基督教家庭，父母都是基督教徒，少年时代就读于贝鲁特的耶稣会学校。20世纪70年代中期，在亲眼目睹了黎巴嫩内战之后，为了摆脱政治动乱与同胞相残的苦痛，他选择移居法国。独特的文化背景使阿敏•马卢夫对阿拉伯人深怀手足之情，对基督教又没有根深蒂固的偏见，因此，他的书多年来无论是在穆斯林世界，还是在西方读者群中，都经久不衰，新版本不断出现，并且被翻译成二十七种语言。他被誉为国际文坛中代表阿拉伯文化的主流声音。

Nathaniel is a magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hot-shot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates Nathaniel in front of his elders, Nathaniel decides to kick up his education a few notches and show Lovelace who's boss. With revenge on his mind, he summons the powerful djinni, Bartimaeus. But summoning Bartimaeus a...(展开全部)

Presenting a thrilling new voice in children's literature-a witty, gripping adventure story featuring a boy and his not-so-tame djinni. Nathaniel is a young magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hotshot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates Nathaniel in front of everyone he knows, Nathaniel decides to kick up his ed...(展开全部)

Nathaniel is a magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hot-shot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates Nathaniel in front of his elders, Nathaniel decides to kick up his education a few notches and show Lovelace who's boss. With revenge on his mind, he summons the powerful djinni, Bartimaeus. But summoning Bartimaeus a...(展开全部)

Presenting a thrilling new voice in children's literature-a witty, gripping adventure story featuring a boy and his not-so-tame djinni. Nathaniel is a young magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hotshot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates Nathaniel in front of everyone he knows, Nathaniel decides to kick up his ed...(展开全部)

薛爱华（Edward Hetzel Schafer，1913—1991，旧译爱德华•谢弗），美国著名汉学家和语言学家，二十世纪下半叶美国唐代研究乃至整个西方唐代研究的领军人物。1938年获伯克利加州大学学士学位，攻读人类学；1947年获哈佛大学东方语言学博士学位。之后一直任教于柏克莱加州大学，直至1984年退休。曾出任美国东方学会会长，并长期主编《美国东方学会会刊》（JAOS）。 他深受传统欧洲汉学影响，重视历史语言文献的研究（精通十几种古今语言），加之他在民族学、民俗学和人类学方面的丰厚学养，使他的中国中古研究呈现出开阔的视野与多视角融合的特点。他的主要研究领域在中外史学界均享有盛誉，如：唐代的社会文化史，尤其是物质文化（名物）研究、唐代的外来文明、中原汉文化与周边民族文化的融合、道教与文学的关系，尤其是唐诗与道教在唐代文化中的作用等。 译者简介 ...(展开全部)

作為撫摸＆接吻ＯＫ的『摸摸啾ＰＵＢ』一員工作的島田， 在幾經曲折後，與摯友．山下開始了充滿愛意的同居生活。 倆人在屋裡的沙發或床上，有時則在工作場所的ＶＩＰ包廂裡度過甜蜜的愛愛時光，過著幸福美滿的日子。 在這樣的日子裡，久未謀面的同學．艾登突然接近島田……？

In the seventh century the kingdom of Samarkand sent formal gifts of fancy yellow peaches, large as goose eggs and with a color like gold, to the Chinese court at Ch'ang-an. What kind of fruit these golden peaches really were cannot now be guessed, but they have the glamour of mystery, and they symbolize all the exotic things longed for, and unknown things hoped for, by the peo...(展开全部)

彼得．布朗(Pete Brown) 原本的工作是幫啤酒公司做廣告，後來發現寫啤酒主題的文章比較有意思，還能喝到更多免費啤酒。布朗為許多報章雜誌撰文、上電視與廣播，還經營了很有影響力的部落格：www.petebrown.blogspot.com。二〇〇九與二〇一二年當選英國啤酒作家協會（British Guild of Beer Writers）年度最佳啤酒作家。 譯者 呂奕欣 師大翻譯所筆譯組畢業，曾任職於出版公司與金融業，現專事翻譯。